Another holy moly moment.... today is the ten year anniversary of Another World going off the air. That's absolutely mind-boggling to me - where does the time go???

Internet speed is still up and down like a fiddler's elbow; I'm downloading the first ep of "The Philantrophist" and it's been yoyo-ing like crazy - currently it's downloading at 145.3 kb/s, but a few minutes ago it was at 3kb/s!!! Had no intentions of downloading this til I heard Jesse L. Martin was in it, and then it got added to the To Do list!!! (helsinkibaby , bring a USB stick over at the weekend and it's yours!!!)

Had my Performance Appraisal at work yesterday evening - considering that my CM's never actually done one before (he's been on the receiving end, but never actually ran one himself!!) it went very well, he's quite happy with my work and the way I run the office. So yay!!! And today, everyone on site had to do a re-induction course for the second phase of the project which is starting up. On one hand, we're like "Christ, we have to do this AGAIN?" but on the other hand, if they're making us do the induction they must be intending on keeping us on!!! (We're getting very good at looking on the bright side in the construction game!!!)

Today was a bit of a shocker on site - 3 of my foremen got called in by the General Manager (aka theColmBoss, as opposed to S, the on-site Contracts Manager) and were given a choice of either taking a temporary leave (of 13 weeks) until work picks up, or they could take redundancy and finish up this Thursday. No word on the grapevine about their decisions (I'd say they're sleeping on it) but it was a bit of a shock for a Monday (our work week runs Friday to Thursday, so no-one expects the bullets to fire on a Monday).

And tomorrow, one of the HR girls is coming out to speak to the lads about the new Stress Management Policy. Great timing - we're all staring redundancy in the face, what other way could you be but stressed????

So, in order to distract myself from the crapness of it all, I've been surfing the internet:

Another World Today has it's second episode up, plus an interview with the fabulous Linda Dano!!

In other surprising news, Jordan and Peter Andre have announced they're seperating (LINK ) I'm kinda surprised at this, although when helsinkibaby and I saw them on Paul O'Grady a few weeks ago, he was redefining the term "hen-pecked husband"

In less surprising news, (which will mean absolutely nothing to 95% of the people reading this) RTE announced that Ryan Tubridy is going to be the new host of The Late Late Show. http://www.rte.ie/arts/2009/0511/latelateshow.html Again, slightly surprised, as I thought Miriam O'Callaghan was a shoo-in, but if they want to re-invigorate the LLS and bring in a younger audience, Tubridy is your man!!

Today is (or would have been) the 45th anniversary of Another World first airing on US television. It's also 10 years since it was cancelled, and last Friday May 1st was the 20th anniversary of the death of Douglass Watson (Mac Cory).

AW was the first of the US daytime soaps that I really got into, and I still miss it to this day. (I'm still incredibly bitter that Sky One took it off the air just as Ryan's ghost was about to show up, but that's a rant for another time!!) So in honour of the day that's in it, here are some of the favourite AW scenes that I've found on YouTube. (WARNING - there's a lot!!)

It's a YouTube channel which streams eps of Another World which are now being shown on Hulu in the States. (Finding this link was very exciting for me, as Hulu doesn't work for me in Ireland, but YouTube does!!!) I believe they're picking up from where Soapnet left off.

Also, RENT clips from the 10th anniversary performance!!! I'm linking to "I'll Cover You" (watch it - it is freaking awesome! Wilson and Jesse look like they're having a blast!!)- other performances are linked at the side....